Numbers 37-47 are examples of literary devices. Please use these for your answers:
a. simile b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. personification
11. My locker is a garbage dump.
12. The moon was as round as a glowing baseball.
13. A diet of chips and soda is a death threat.
14. Swish, went the basketball into the hoop.
15. The cave gleamed an invitation, and then winked, mischievously.
16. The summer was as short as a chocolate ice cream.
17. The angry girls fought like hungry wolves.
18. The forest floor cried out in pain as the soldiers fell, wounded.
19. Pop, crackle, snap was disturbingly loud that early morning.
20. The trees waved gracefully in the wind.
21. The day off from school was a winning lottery ticket!
Numbers 48-60 are examples of literary devices.
Use these for your answers to identify each literary example.
a. irony b. suspense c. foreshadowing d. flashback
22. “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink!”
23. “Don’t move! The snake could be anywhere. It could be crawling up the leg of his pajamas!” From “Poison” by Roald Dahl.
24. He recalled a more peaceful time…he had been only seven years old…
(we see the setting change to the old house…)
25. “Stay out of the basement! The ghosts are down there! No one can open their containment cells, except my uncle.” From Thirteen Ghost, a movie.
26. Things had been different since the high altitude incident. Before she had been trapped on the ice-covered mountain, she had been sure the world was a safe place. But then it happened! ... Eliza closes her eyes and remembers the ropes coming undone!
27. “I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.” From The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe.